ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq - The Kurdistan Region came under renewed drone attacks on Tuesday, with two drones intercepted and others hitting Iranian dissident groups’ camps, leaving two people injured.
The Kurdistan Region’s Counter-Terrorism on Tuesday said that two suicide drones “directed toward Erbil province from Iranian territory were intercepted and shot down by fighter jets.”
The Region’s counterterrorism service added that no casualties or damages were reported.
Simultaneously, the Iranian Kurdish opposition Komala of the Toilers of Kurdistan’s Surdash camp in Sulaimani province and its Balisan camp in Erbil province were targeted by three drones in total, Amjad Hossein Panahi, a member of the party’s politburo, told The New Region on Tuesday.
Panahi claimed that the drones were launched from Iran’s shared border with the Kurdistan Region in Haji Omran.
At least two members of the group were wounded in the attack.
The Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), another opposition group, came under attack too on Tuesday, with the party saying that its civilian Azadi Camp in Koya had been targeted.
The attacks on the Kurdistan Region come following the collapse of US-Iran negotiation talks in Islamabad, which ended without an agreement after 21 hours of talks, with disputes over Iran’s nuclear program, sanctions, war reparations, and control of the waterway.
Prior to the Islamabad talks, a two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran led to a lull in attacks in Iraq, with the Iran-aligned Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of Shiite militias, saying on Wednesday it would also refrain from offensive action during the period.
On Friday, the Kurdistan Region’s Interior Ministry said that the Region was also targeted in several over night drone strikes at different locations, all of which were intercepted.
As several countries in the region faced overnight attacks, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Friday that its forces have “absolutely made no launches towards any country during the ceasefire hours so far,” denying reports of attacks on countries south of the Persian Gulf.